Author Archives: Syndicated Content
From quills to qwerty: Lloyd's underwriters adapt to home working
By Carolyn Cohn, Noor Zainab Hussain and Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of London's underwriters took their stamps and fountain pens home last week, which they use to sign insurance contra...
Mar 27, 2020
Slovakia to limit some truck transit due to border jams
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia is closing border crossings with Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria for the transit of trucks over 7.5 tons delivering non-essential goods, the police said...
Mar 27, 2020
Africa's web of creditors complicates coronavirus debt relief
By Joe Bavier and Karin Strohecker JOHANNESBURG/LONDON (Reuters) - Africa is crying out for debt relief to weather a perfect storm of coronavirus, plummeting oil and commodity prices, mounting budget ...
Mar 27, 2020
Parts of U.S. will need longer-term focus on coronavirus containment, Pence says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Friday that some areas of the United States will need to continue to focus on efforts to rein in coronavirus even after the Trump administ...
Mar 27, 2020
Canada withdrawal from 2020 Games was unilateral decision: COC
By Karolos Grohmann ATHENS (Reuters) - Canada's decision to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympic Games if they were to be held in 2020 was a unilateral decision based on the health and safety of athletes a...
Mar 27, 2020
European hedge funds struggle as short-selling bans disrupt strategies
By Maiya Keidan and Clara Denina LONDON (Reuters) - European hedge funds struggled to navigate the coronavirus-induced extreme market volatility during March, with many down by double-digits in the sp...
Mar 27, 2020
French Finance minister says companies can't ask for help and hand out dividends
PARIS (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire will tell Prime Minister Edouard Philippe that companies should not be allowed to ask for help with tax and charges deadlines and at the same t...
Mar 27, 2020
Italy has yet to hit coronavirus peak, lockdown set to be extended
By Crispian Balmer and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Coronavirus infections in Italy have yet to reach their peak, the head of the country's national health institute said on Friday, as officials war...
Mar 27, 2020
Use soap, not guns, and fight virus 'bare hands', Pakistan video says
By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A deeply conservative, tribal region of Pakistan is spreading an animated, Pashto-language video to warn its population about the coronavirus - and tak...
Mar 27, 2020
From behind a closed door, infected UK PM Johnson coordinates coronavirus battle
By William James LONDON (Reuters) - A knock at the door and the sound of retreating footsteps - that is how British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will have food and paperwork delivered from the outside...
Mar 27, 2020
